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For the sixth day of action here in St Peter Ording, Germany, the conditions didn't look promising. Instead of taking to the water, the kiteboarders of the PKRA decided to hold meetings about the judging system in the Freestyle discipline and the rules applying to Course Racing. By the middle of the afternoon the wind picked up to around 8 knots, which was enough to start the only race of the day, Race 11.
The Freestyle-judging meeting was set up to discuss several points:
- Scoring individual tricks from 0 to 10 according to the existing judging criteria but putting more emphasis on the quality of execution. The judges now have to note the name of the trick as well as the score.
- Only taking into consideration the 5-7 best tricks from each rider (Men & Women's divisions)
- A panel consisting of five judges in which the highest and lowest scores are withdrawn for the final tabulation.
All these different issues were discussed and debated with the riders and final decisions will be made after voting in Brazil.
Meanwhile the Course Racers had a meeting of their own about different rules:
- The wind limit was discussed and set to 6 knots combined with suitable conditions, the current and the direction of the wind being the most important factors.
- The board limitation was discussed (190cm by 60cm) and will be voted at the next AGM (annual general meeting) of the IKA (International Kiteboarding Association) to decide whether to go for a production class only or also accept custom boards.
- The same thing applies for the number of kites to be registered at the event. Right now it's set to 3 per event for budgets reasons and could go to 4 or 5 kites.
At 3pm the wind was fairly light but higher than 6 knots confirming the new rule to start the course racing discipline. The three leaders of the ranking were on the exact same kite, a 17 meters, and kept on crossing each other throughout the course. Kerneur (FRA, Takoon) remembered pumping with his legs by pushing on the board to gain some speed and managed to go faster than the others on the last reaching tack, he went on to win the race.
Olivier Dansin (FRA, North) tangled right on the start line due to Bram Hoogendijk (NED, Peter Lynn) who looped his kite into Olivier's as he got blocked by the fleet and tried to get away. When this kind of mistake happens the rider needs to scream "Protest" on the water in order to fill out a proper protest form once the race is over. At the end of the day all protests are discussed with Markus Schwendtner, IKA representative, who then decides the legitimacy of the protest.
In the girls division, Katja Roose (NED, Airush) was happy to finish first again and confirm her recently acquired top spot overall for this event after 11 races. She reckoned that she played well with the shifting winds, tacking as they were changing to get to the upwind buoy. Meanwhile Steph Bridge (GBR, North) commented that she rode well but didn't go as fast as she thought she should and is now thinking about going on a diet…
Results Race 11:
1. Julien Kerneur (FRA, Takoon)
2. John Heineken (USA, Ozone)
3. Adam Koch (USA, Ozone)
1. Katja Roose (NED, Airush)
2. Steph Bridge (GBR, North)
3. Christine Boenninger (GER, Flysurfer)
John Heineken (USA, Ozone) and Katja Roose (NED, Airush) are now sitting in first place on the overall ranking of this event.
Tomorrow afternoon the conditions should be good enough to start the Freestyle discipline again.
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We regularly receive requests from individuals and organizations to link to their websites. As a top-notch, academic medical library, our website focuses "providing access to scholarly academic resources to advance education, research, and health care through information access, service and innovation." To assist in sorting out which external links to include or exclude, our library has developed a policy for linking to external websites to guide the decision process.
One of the critical components of this policy is "The HON Code of Conduct for medical and health Web sites" from the Health On the Net Foundation. Our website is HON Code Certified, meaning that the content we offer is/shows:
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- Financial disclosure: must identify funding sources.
- Advertising policy: clearly distinguish advertising from editorial content.
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Our site (http://www.bestnursingdegree.com/) is listed as a web resource by the American Nurses Association and the American Hospital Association, and the New York Times highlighted us in November 2010 as a nursing career/education resource. I'm biased : ) but I do think it might be a useful addition.
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When compared to the HON Code Principles, however, this site falls short on several criteria. First, it barely meets the requirement for "Transparency," only providing an email address as contact information, and nothing else. A visit to the parent company's website, Degree Prospects LLC, leads to a single web page with little information other than a generic email address, falling short in the "Authoritative" and "Financial Disclosure" categories. Finally, its so-called "Privacy Policy" can be changed at any time, and they reserve the right to sell assets, including any personal information provided by visitors. They claim that if personal information is sold, the Privacy Policy "shall remain in full force and effect and shall be binding" on those it is sold to. But any policy can be changed at any time by either the seller or the buyer, so privacy is fluid at best.
Should the library include a link to this site as a resource on our website, or not? What do you think? Tell us!

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Students to go mobile with Exercise is Medicine
Students to go mobile with Exercise is Medicine
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Penn State's Kinesiology Club is excited to see where its Exercise is Medicine (EiM) program will go. Literally.
Making headway
EiM is hitting the road this fall with its new Mobile Outreach & Regional Expansion initiative, a project that will take its events and health assessments to campuses and community groups across the state.
"We're trying to reach out to the Penn State community as well as the Commonwealth campuses," said Michele Duffey, director of the Kinesiology Physical Activity Program.
EiM on campus is an initiative of the American College of Sports Medicine that calls on universities and colleges to promote the health benefits of physical activity and exercise on their campuses. The first campus-wide EiM event at Penn State's University Park campus was held in November 2012.
The goal with Mobile EiM, which has been made possible by a grant from the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence, the Thomas M. Nardozzo Community Service Endowment and the Department of Kinesiology's Faculty Endowment Fund, is to travel to various sites in and out of the community, and grant kinesiology students the opportunity to be on the "front line" and give real advice, Duffey said.
"At the end of the day we want to have broader impact … on people engaged in their health," she said.
Kinesiology students and one or two advisers will travel with a trailer that will transport exercise and assessment equipment. Each visit will involve some combination of health and fitness assessments and promotional events. The group may also set up peer mentoring at some locations for students interested in kinesiology.
"Hopefully this will end up being a really nice project to give students a really great experience and promote (wellness) … and physical activity and try to change lifestyles," Duffey said.
The frequency of Mobile EiM visits will depend on the location and travel expenses involved, Duffey said, but the idea is to make one non-local trip per semester. Additional events will include local trips to community and on-campus groups.
"(We'll) tweak it and see where the interest is," she said.
So far four groups, including Penn State Hershey Medical Center and Penn State Berks, have shown interest in a visit.
"It's exciting. It's big," Duffey said. "It's evolving on a daily basis."
Items the group will travel with include a BIA, or Bodystat 1500 bioelectrical impedance analysis unit, which analyzes body composition; a first aid kit; laptop computers for recording and linking health history, and personal accounts; Monark bicycles to be used for the assessment of cardiorespiratory fitness; counters used in assessments to increase accuracy; and stop watches.
Assessment tests given, depending on the site, may include blood lipid and glucose testing, said Chris Bopp, instructor and director of the Center for Fitness and Wellness (CFW). All of these tests and assessments are offered at the CFW on University Park's campus.
"Everything we do at the CFW will be available in the (mobile) EiM lab," Bopp said.
The center, part of the department of kinesiology, provides instructional support for select activity-based courses offered by the department of kinesiology. Students enrolled in certain kinesiology courses obtain fitness testing as part of the requirements for the course.
The lipid, or cholesterol, testing was piloted last year with about 900 tests completed, Bopp said. During that pilot, 25 to 35 percent of college-aged males who came to the CFW to be assessed had a lipid abnormality, Bopp said.
"It was much higher than I anticipated," he said.
Mobile EiM will help provide new information to students and help encourage physical activity beyond the 1,200 to 1,400 students who are tested in the CFW each semester on University Park's campus, Bopp said.
"(It's) an opportunity to expand our services outside of this one room," he said.
EiM at home
Since EiM's inception on Penn State's University Park campus, the kinesiology club has been working to create a broader reach, Duffey said, and has recently starting hosting one-week events in the fall.
EiM events include outdoor exercise stations at high visibility sites, exercise competitions, prize drawings, fitness testing, a "skip the elevator-take the stairs" signage campaign and an educational booth at the HUB-Robeson Center.
More than 130 kinesiology club members and 10 faculty members organized and implemented the 2012 event. More than 2,500 passers-by participated in unplanned exercise, with 1,200 of those participants completing surveys, Duffey said. During the 2013 EiM week, 3,000 pedometers were handed out throughout the week, and the number of participants reached 999 on that Thursday alone.
Last year EiM week was held the week following Homecoming, Duffey said, which proved to be a popular and successful time to host it.
"That was the goal: to impact a lot of people a lot of different ways," she said. "Our goal has been to send an important message to the campus community."
This year's weeklong event, which begins Sept. 29, will add focus on bridging the gap between fitness professionals and health care providers to emphasize the importance of physical activity and health in the prevention and treatment of many chronic diseases, Duffey said.
"Ultimately, we are hoping to impact the entire community and to encourage all allied health professionals to include discussions of physical activity as part of any person's health care," she said. "This discussion is part of our current goals for the year with a by invitation discussion featuring Robert Sallis, M.D., the creater of EiM."
For more information about the Penn State Kinesiology Club visit pennstatekines.wix.com/club. For more information about Exercise is Medicine at Penn State visit pennstateeim.weebly.com. For more information about Penn State's Department of Kinesiology, visit www.hhd.psu.edu/kines/.


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Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance took their twins, Bronwyn and Slater (they'll be 5 next month), to the Lakers vs. Heat game on Christmas Day. Angela went dressy casual in a gray blazer, cropped drawstring pants, and wedge heels. Definitely the flyest mom I've ever seen!
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2011 promises to be a great year for Angela Bassett. She's got 3 films set to release and a television series in the works with ABC. We've been waiting for the Acting Queen's big return and without further ado; here is what we can expect next year in Angie B News:
Jumping the Broom - May 6, 2011
A wedding comedy that follows two African-American families from two different socio-economic backgrounds as they come together for a weekend wedding in Martha's vineyard. Paula Patton and Laz Alonso play the lead couple. Angela plays Patton's mother, a heiress and pillar of the Washington elite. This would be a different type of matriarch; uppity and bougie. Should be interesting! Jumping the Broom also marks the first reunion of Angela and Loretta Devine, who plays Alonso's mother, since 1995's Waiting to Exhale. Expect some intense scenes between these two as they fight for the HBIC title come Spring!
Green Lantern - June 17, 2011
Green Lantern is the first comic book action themed film for Angela and if rumors are true, this wont be the last. Angie B plays Amanda "The Wall" Waller, a character famous for her intimidating, steely demeanor and fearless leadership of a group of supervillains. The Wall is usually the villain in DC comics but she has been known to switch sides if it benefits her. She has no superpowers but instead is a highly intelligent, government specialist who is so bad ass, shes even shaken up Batman from time to time. Angela's Waller character has many connections in the DC universe and could easily be intertwined in follow up films.
This Means War - TBA
Angela Bassett has decided to join the cast of Fox's new film 'This Means War'. Produced by Will Smith and starring Chris Pine, Tom Hardy and Reese Witherspoon.
The film centers on two best friends who happen to be international spies. But when they fall in love with the same woman, they declare war on each other.
Bassett will play the boss of Pine and Hardy's characters, a woman who has dedicated her life to the spy business and has no life outside the CIA.
Source: [BVonMovies.com]
Angie's TV pilot, One Police Plaza, will most likely begin production after the holidays, during the first quarter of 2011 to premiere with ABC's fall lineup. To stay up to date on all AB news, make sure to follow us on twitter: [@AngieBNews]
Also look out for the release of Of Boys & Men with Robert Townsend on DVD, January 25, 2011. [Amazon.com]
Happy New Year, BassettHounds!


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Abzug, Bella Savitsky səvĭt´skē ăb´zo͝og [key], 1920–98, U.S. politician, b. New York City. She helped found Women Strike for Peace (1961) and the reformist New Democratic Coalition (1968). Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from New York in 1970, she was a leader of the House antiwar movement and a vigorous proponent of women's rights. In 1976 she lost a Senate primary to Daniel P. Moynihan . In 1977 she left the House and lost the New York City mayoral primary to Edward I. Koch . Abzug also founded and headed the Women's Environment and Development Organization.
See her Bella! Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington (ed. by M. Ziegler, 1972) and Gender Gap 1984 (with M. Kelber, 1984).
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This project is upcoming.How is this project being funded?
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The former head of Swain County's Department of Social Services won't be getting her job back, members of the county's DSS board decided in a called meeting on Monday.
The board had dismissed Cagle following a hearing last month, but she launched an appeal attempting to be reinstalled in the position.
The appeal triggered a second hearing before the board, where Cagle was allowed to plead her case again in closed session.
Now that the board has again voted to uphold her dismissal, Cagle has one final recourse, to appeal to the N.C. Office of State Personnel.
She was dismissed in the wake of a scandal sparked by the death of 15-month-old Aubrey Littlejohn who died in January. The State Bureau of Investigation is investigating an alleged cover-up at the agency. A social worker claimed he had been directed by superiors to falsify records following the baby's death.
However, Cagle was fired for reasons unrelated to that case. Reasons cited were insubordination and "conduct unbecoming of a state employee."
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It took a matter of seconds to make 1st Sgt. Eric Rummel a true believer.
The marine was driving through southern Afghanistan last year when his truck hit a roadside bomb buried in a gulch. The vehicle shuddered, popped into the air, and settled back down again in a cloud of desert dust.
The whole thing was over before he knew what happened, but Sergeant Rummel and the two other men in the truck that day all walked away. The truck was a Mine Resistant, Ambush Protected truck (MRAP) – a 16-ton behemoth that came to be regarded as the soldier's lifeboat in Iraq, its V-shaped hull saving lives by deflecting the blast of roadside bombs.
Rummel's story points to the same success in Afghanistan. "God bless the MRAP and what it does," he says.
But the mammoth trucks are built for Iraq, where troops are fighting a largely urban insurgency on city streets. Afghanistan's insurgency is rural, and the Pentagon is in a race to completely redesign the MRAP for its new duty, making it lighter, with a beefier suspension and better off-road capabilities for troops who launch missions into fields and up hillsides – often with no roads.
The effort, however, calls into question one of the bedrock tenets of Defense Secretary Robert Gates's regime: He wants to prioritize equipment that saves troops' lives. But experts wonder if, in the process, he is saddling the military for years to come with a fleet of vehicles that can be used in only one spot on the globe.
"It's not so clear that we can develop a new class of vehicles every time we go to a new country," says Loren Thompson, chief operating officer of the Lexington Institute, a policy group in Washington.
The initial program to come up with a new breed of Afghan-friendly MRAPs, called Multi-Purpose All Terrain Vehicles, or M-ATVs, will cost $2 billion. The MRAP program has produced more than 16,000 vehicles in two years. This month, the Pentagon is expected to finalize a contract that would put more than 2,000 M-ATVs in Afghanistan – some by this fall.
The logic is clear: Roadside bomb attacks in Afghanistan are up some 80 percent over last year.
The day Rummel's truck was hit, he was using his MRAP as an ambulance to evacuate war wounded near the town of Now Zad in Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan, an area of intense fighting. Before his truck had even arrived in the gulch, four other improvised explosive devices had detonated in that area; two marines later needed amputations.
The explosion surprised Rummel, particularly because the Humvee in front of him had just driven through the same gulch unscathed.
As much as he loves the truck that protected his life, Rummel says the current MRAP isn't the right truck for Afghanistan, adding: "It's just too big of a vehicle."
Pentagon planners agree. They "are convinced that the terrain and infrastructure in Afghanistan vary so greatly from Iraq that a different class of heavy trucks is required," says Mr. Thompson of the Lexington Institute.
Within the armed forces, however, there is skepticism about the need for M-ATVs. Gen. James Conway, commandant of the Marine Corps, isn't committing to the new $1 million-a-copy truck yet. He wants to determine if a faster, cheaper modification to one of the existing MRAP models might make it "Afghan-worthy."
In theory, the modification is an interim measure to tide over the Marines until the new MRAPs arrive. But the temporary solution could become a long-term fix.
After years of being stuck in Iraq, the Marines are trying to return to their expeditionary roots. They are increasingly worried about the weight and size of some of the new vehicles, which would make them difficult to stow aboard ships and cargo planes. The safety specifications of the new M-ATV may add so much weight that they literally tip the scales, leading the corps to pass on the vehicle, General Conway said.
Four companies have submitted five M-ATV prototypes for consideration, and each is undergoing testing at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds outside Washington. Pentagon officials expect to choose one vehicle by the end of this month or in early July, defense officials say.
The effort has its roots in Mr. Gates's first weeks in the Pentagon more than two years ago. He arrived to find that many troops in Iraq were still driving in Humvees and other vehicles ill-suited to protect against roadside bombs. A new truck became his chief acquisition priority.
Since then, Gates has broken new ground, creating a task force that essentially skirted the stodgy defense industrial complex and its bureaucratic impediments to get the truck built quickly and shipped to Iraq.
In the process, however, he also spent billions to create a truck that may be useless in other types of environments.
"It really is a situation of damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't," says Dakota Wood, a retired Marine lieutenant colonel who is now a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a think tank in Washington.
"People who hit a roadside bomb in an MRAP typically walk away, but that comes with a cost" to the military's broader strategic capabilities, he adds.
Money is another factor. The Pentagon had the cash to build and field the MRAP quickly. But defense dollars are beginning to shrink, and defense officials will have to make wise spending choices. The popularity of the MRAPs among troops, Congress, military leaders, and the American public will make it a sacred cow no one wants to be seen as opposing.
For his part, Rummel hopes that whatever truck the Pentagon sends to Afghanistan, it's one that can keep saving lives.
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PRINCESS ANNE, MD. - (June 28, 2013) - Twenty-three middle-schoolers are participating in a hands-on summer enrichment program at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, where they are learning about the role of scientists and engineers in the field of transportation.
How hands-on?
The seventh- and eighth-graders have learned about those surveying gizmos mounted on tripods that highway engineers use to ensure a road is straight - or curves just so at a safe angle. It is not as easy it may look, the students say.
Pressurized water-fueled rockets created from plastic soda bottles gave students an opportunity to design and build something from scratch and watch their creation fly, perhaps 50 to 100 feet with the help of a bicycle pump.
Sinan Al-Smadi from Wicomico Middle School in Salisbury can barely contain his energy when it comes time to show off what he's been learning at the "Summer Transportation Institute."
"I want to be an engineer," Sinan says with a confident grin.
The summer program is funded by the Federal Highway Administration through the Maryland State Highway Administration.
Dr. Joseph Arumala, a UMES technology professor and the program's director, said he and his associates hope participants gain an appreciation for the transportation industry and perhaps think about it as a career choice.
The summer program combines math, science, English and communication participate in field projects and trips to local land, air and water transportation-related facilities, Arumala said.
Amar Yousif, a rising seventh grader, said he's interested in science and participated in a "green engineer" activity this past year at Somerset Intermediate School .
Mikell Sinclair of Salisbury Middle School isn't sold on being transportation engineer, but seemed to be enjoying himself.
"We've learned some cool stuff," he said.
The Summer Transportation Institute is an all-day program that runs from June 24 to July 3. There is no cost to selected students who signed up on a first-come, first-serve basis and met eligibility requirements.
Participants receive a graphing calculator and are provided lunch, too.
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The Tom Morris Suite is located within the conference wing and can be used for a variety of setups, including theatre-style meetings or as two smaller rooms. It has floor-to-ceiling windows, which let in daylight or can be covered with black-out curtains, a plasma screen for each room and a dedicated refreshment area.
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The Sacking of Lawrence, May 21, 1856 – 6 The Wakarusa War
David Potter suggests that much of the discord between Kansans and Missourians was less about slavery and more about land claims.(i) The territory had not yet completed land surveys even six months after it opened for settlement so people squatted on land they wanted. Disputes over those claims, largely between Missourian and new Kansan settlers, sparked the events that culminated in the 1856 raid on Lawrence.
It began with a killing. A pro-slavery man named Franklin N. Coleman killed in 1855 a Free-Soiler named Charles W. Dow south of Lawrence, Kansas in a land-claim dispute. [An account of the killing by Isaac T. Goodnow can be read here.] Because Coleman claimed self-defense, he was not arrested. In retaliation, a group of Free-Soil men threatened Coleman and his corroborators and burned their property. (ii) Douglas County sheriff Samuel J. Jones was sent to arrest the aggressors but was prevented from doing so by armed Free-Soil men lead by Samuel N. Wood.
Jones accepted the aid of an army of Missouri "Border Ruffians" who converged outside of Lawrence near the Wakarusa River with the intent of enforcing "Law and order in Kansas." (iii) Then Kansas Territory governor Wilson Shannon averted violence through negotiation (President Pierce refused him Federal troops) and the band dispersed, albeit reluctantly. Because the threat of violence was so great, the episode became known as the Wakarusa War.
This post continues the series, "The Sacking of Lawrence May 21, 1856." Read Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, and Part 5 here.
(i) David M. Potter and Don E. Fehrenbacher, The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861, (New York: Harper and Row Publishers, Inc., 1976), 206.
(ii) Ibid., 207.


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Among the many things not getting done in Washington these days, filling up the bench of the Judicial branch is still near the top of the list. This backlog of judicial nominees has been going on for at least a decade now, with some ebbs and flows in high profile cases. The D.C. Circuit Court – one of the most influential on national matters and a frequent launching point for Supreme Court justices – currently has four of its eleven seats vacant. Have we reached a confirmation crisis? Jeffrey Toobin certainly seems to think so.
During the last Bush Administration, Republican Senators grew so frustrated with what they called Democratic obstruction of judicial nominees that they threatened to change Senate rules to limit filibusters on judges. In 2005, the bipartisan "Gang of Fourteen" Senators announced a truce. Democrats agreed to allow votes on Bush's nominees in "all but extraordinary circumstances," and they kept to the deal. Bush's second-term appointees (including two to the Supreme Court) proceeded without obstruction. At least technically, the Gang of Fourteen compromise is still in effect. But Republicans have essentially ignored it—as the Halligan filibuster demonstrated.
Toobin is talking about the filibuster of Caitlin Halligan to the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Republicans have focused on a brief she wrote when working for then NY District Attorney Andrew Cuomo, in which she supported the idea of holding gun manufactuers liable for damage done with legally purchased weapons. It's a horrible, unconstitutional idea – in my opinion, anyway – but to be fair, it was written for her boss to support his position. Other than that, I'm not sure how "unqualified" she is.
There's an argument to be made for high level scrutiny being applied to federal judges generally—it's a lifetime appointment, after all—and for appellate judges in particular—they set precedent that guides thousands of cases. While my longstanding view is that a 60 vote requirement for confirmation is extraconstitutional, if not unconstitutional, I'm amenable to the argument that judicial nominees ought to be well within the mainstream; presidents shouldn't be able to radicalize the legal system for decades to come by virtue of a slim Senate majority.
But we're well past that. Senate Republicans aren't standing firm against radical judges but against Democratic judges. And, no, the two aren't synonymous; the American people have, after all, elected a Democratic president two cycles in a row and Democrats got more votes for both the House and Senate as well…
There may be a middle ground option, whereby judicial nominees would be required to obtain, say, 55 votes for confirmation in exchange for the inability to filibuster or otherwise block a vote. In most cases, that would mean at least a couple of votes from the opposition party. In all cases, it would seem enough of an indicator that the nominee isn't an extremist. But even that sort of compromise is unlikely to be achievable in the current climate.
I realize those opinion pieces will rub most Republicans and conservatives the wrong way because of the name and party of the person doing the appointing these days, but it's hard to deny that this is a problem. We do need to keep the benches filled, and there will only be one President at a time doing it. The handcuffs you put on Barack Obama now will still be worn by the next GOP Commander in Chief. It's difficult to imagine a way out of this mess, though.
There is no impediment to Joyner's suggestion of requiring 55 votes for confirmation instead of sixty to break a filibuster. That restriction is just part of the Senate rules, which they can change at any time. But it would require the will to do it, which – as Dr. Joyner notes – probably doesn't exist. So what do we do? This isn't a debate on something like taxes or spending. There is no "let it burn" path available. If you don't have the courts, the system breaks down. Any suggestions?


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Garden Detective: Mulching with breathing room
DEAR JESSICA: I follow your monthly calendars and read that on the chore for May 30 you advised keeping mulch away from trunks and plant stems. Why? --John Stoia, Deer Park
DEAR JOHN: I'm glad you asked. The purpose of mulch is to retain soil moisture, suppress weeds and keep the soil temperature constant. When mulch is applied too closely to trunks and stems, moisture is kept in and air circulation is kept out, resulting in rotted plants.
You've probably noticed a common suburban travesty that's commonly referred to as "volcano mulching," in which 2-foot-high mounds of mulch are piled up around tree trunks for a volcano effect. The most disturbing part of this is that it's a common practice among some professional landscapers. As a result, many trees die a slow death, often several years after the offending practice, and homeowners are left wondering about the mysterious decline of their trees.
As a rule of thumb, if you can't see the natural flare that extends from the bottom of a tree trunk to the soil line, that means the tree is, in effect, suffocating under the mulch. The buried portion of the trunk eventually will decay, and the rotting will make the tree susceptible to further disease. Certain trees will even send girdling roots into the mulch, restricting the trunk and eventually strangling themselves.
Applying mulch 2 to 3 inches deep over the root area in a circle around the trunk -- but never touching it -- will protect the tree from lawn mower injuries and provide the aforementioned benefits. More than that is harmful.
The same practice should apply to annuals, perennials and shrubs.
DEAR JESSICA: Our palm tree will overgrow our ceiling by next year. It has a wonderful shape and several offshoots. We would hate to send it somewhere with a higher ceiling. Is there any way we can prune it to a more manageable size? --Cindy and Jim McCann, Douglaston
DEAR CINDY AND JIM: Unfortunately, your palm can't be shortened, so it appears finding another home for it is your only option.
DEAR JESSICA: When you buy potted tulips, do you need to wait to plant the bulbs? The flowers have died and the foliage is withered. --Nancy Bajorski, West Babylon
DEAR NANCY: Tulips are reliable repeat-blooming perennials in Holland. But in New York, even under the best conditions, they practice what accountants call "diminishing returns" until one year all you get are stems and leaves and wonder where the party went. You certainly can plant your potted tulip bulbs now, but you should know that their unreliability is even more pronounced if they began life as a forced potted plant.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Screening women over 65 each year for breast cancer doesn't catch any more early tumors - but it does lead to more false positives - than screening every other year, according to a new study.
The findings are based on more than 140,000 older women included in five mammography registries across the United States.
"This study clearly tells us that screening every two years may be more appropriate than screening women every year," said Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society (ACS).
However, he noted, there are other studies that contradict that finding and do suggest annual mammograms are the way to go, even among older women.
One in eight U.S. women will be diagnosed with breast cancer at some point in her life.
Mammography guidelines from the ACS call for women to be screened for breast cancer every year they are in good health, starting at age 40.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, on the other hand, recommends biennial screening for women ages 50 to 74, saying there's not enough evidence to recommend for or against mammograms for those aged 75 and older.
For the new study, Dejana Braithwaite from the University of California, San Francisco and her colleagues followed women ages 66 through 89 for seven years. During that time, about 3,000 were diagnosed with breast cancer and 138,000 remained cancer-free.
Among women with breast cancer, a similar proportion had invasive or advanced stage tumors, regardless of whether they had been screened every year or every other year leading up to their diagnosis. About two-thirds of those women were screened annually.
However, between 47 and 50 percent of women who were screened annually had a false positive mammogram at some point during the study period, compared to 26 to 30 percent of those screened biennially, according to the findings published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
"Just having a false positive result means having the potential anxiety and inconvenience of having to undergo additional procedures," Braithwaite told Reuters Health.
In older women in particular, biopsies and other procedures may exacerbate underlying health conditions, she added.
According to Brawley, who wasn't involved in the new study, there are three types of cancers.
"There are the cancers that grow so slowly they would have never killed the patients, there are the cancers that grow slow enough that we can find them and save the patients' lives and then there are the cancers that grow so fast that no matter what screening we do, we're never going to be able to save the patient's life," he told Reuters Health.
"This study says… screening every year is not going to find any more of these cancers that are growing slow enough to be detected, but fast enough if they weren't detected they would kill."
Braithwaite's team calculated that nationwide, screening older women annually rather than biennially would lead to almost four million additional false positive exams in that age group.
"Our study shows that it really does very little benefit, in fact there is no benefit, with annual mammograms and there's this additional harm of having an increased probability of a false positive result," Braithwaite said.
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The lawyer representing a Yemeni woman who was arrested Saturday over suspicions she was involved in sending explosive packages to the United States said Sunday that she was being set up, NBC News reported.
The woman, identified by her lawyer as 22-year-old Hanan al Samawi, is a fifth-year computer science student, he said.
Abdul Rahman Barman confirmed that al Samawi's phone number was on the packages, but he said he believes it was used by some other entity, NBC News said. He also said al-Qaida does not leave obvious traces in its operations.
The Saturday arrest came after authorities surrounded a house where she was hiding in the capital San'a, Reuters reported.
The suspect's phone number was on the shipping invoice, NBC News reported. Her father works as an oil engineer.
Yemeni officials told The Associated Press authorities were searching for a number of suspects believed to have used forged documents and ID cards that played a role in the plot that was thwarted Friday.
Yemeni security officials said they believed the terror plot was linked to al-Qaida.
Several U.S. officials identified the terrorist group's top explosives expert in Yemen as the most likely bombmaker.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh earlier told reporters that the United States and the United Arab Emirates provided him with information that identified the woman as a suspect.
"Yemen is determined to continue fighting terrorism and al-Qaida in cooperation with its partners. But we do not want anyone to interfere in Yemeni affairs by hunting down al-Qaida," Saleh said at a news conference. He gave no details about the woman and did not take questions from journalists.
Re-examining Dubai cargo plane crash
Yemeni authorities were checking more packages in a search for the terrorists who tried to mail bombs to Chicago-area synagogues in a brazen plot that officials said bore the hallmarks of al-Qaida.
The package bombs have prompted investigators in the U.S. and the United Arab Emirates to re-examine the crash of a UPS cargo plane in Dubai on Sept. 3, NBC News reported.
Some reports at the time said a fire had broken out in the plane just after it took off from Dubai International Airport. The crash killed two crew members.
"People are obviously taking another hard look at why that plane went down, but no hard conclusions have been reached yet," a U.S. official told NBC News.
Authorities on three continents thwarted the mail-bomb attacks when they seized explosives on cargo planes in Dubai and England on Friday. The plot sent tremors throughout the U.S., where after a frenzied day searching planes and parcel trucks for other explosives, officials temporarily banned all new cargo from Yemen.
It still wasn't clear whether the bombs, which officials said were wired to cell phones, timers and power supplies, could have been detonated remotely while the planes were in the air, or when the packages were halfway around the world in the U.S.
The packages were addressed to two Jewish institutions in the Chicago area. But British Prime Minister David Cameron said Saturday that he believes the explosive device found at the East Midlands Airport in central England was intended to detonate aboard the plane.
British Home Secretary Theresa May added that the bomb was powerful enough to take down the plane.
"I can confirm the device was viable and could have exploded. The target may have been an aircraft and had it detonated, the aircraft could have been brought down," May said.
A U.S. official said authorities believe a second device found in Dubai was similarly potent.
Christmas Day bomber
Al-Qaida's Yemen branch, known as al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, took credit for a failed bombing aboard a Detroit-bound airliner last Christmas. The bomb used in that attack contained PETN, an industrial explosive that was also used in the mail bombs found Friday.
The suspected bombmaker behind the Christmas Day attack, Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, is also the prime suspect in the mail bomb plot, several U.S. officials said. Al-Asiri also helped make another PETN device for a failed suicide attempt against a top Saudi counterterrorism official last year. The official survived, but his attacker died in the blast.
"The forensic analysis is under way," Obama's counterterror chief John Brennan said Friday. "Clearly from the initial observation, the initial analysis that was done, the materials that were found in the device that was uncovered was intended to do harm."
Officials said the plot was discovered thanks to intelligence passed from Saudi Arabia. Without that tip, it's unclear whether anyone would have discovered the bombs before they were airborne — or on U.S. soil.
Currently, American officials do not get details about the contents of a U.S.-bound cargo plane until four hours before it's scheduled to land. In the case of long distance flights, those planes would already be airborne. Once a plane lands, officials screen packages that they feel warrant a closer look.
The failed attack should be a "wake up call" that the U.S. needs to step up security on cargo planes, the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Kit Bond, said.
Cargo, mail from Yemen banned
U.S. officials were still cobbling together details about the packages but one official briefed on the investigation said authorities believed the plotters may have been associated with two institutions called "Yemen American Institute (for) Languages-Computer-Management" or the "American Center for Training and Development."
It was not immediately clear whether those institutions even exist or whether that information came from false documents or fake addresses.
The U.S. temporarily banned all incoming cargo and mail from Yemen. The U.S. Postal Service says it's temporarily stopped accepting inbound international mail that's originating in Yemen. A UPS employee in Yemen said the office has temporarily halted receiving any packages for delivery.
In Chicago, the leader of a North Side synagogue told members of his congregation at weekend services that a smaller congregation that uses their building was one of the targets of the plot.
Rabbi Michael Zedek of Emmanuel Congregation said he was told by a Jewish leader in Chicago that the smaller Or Chadash congregation was one of the targets. The FBI did not confirm that, and both Zedek and Chadash Rabbi Larry Edwards said they had not spoken to law enforcement.
Or Chadash members took the news calmly, Edwards said. The synagogue, which has about 100 members, serves lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered Jews and their families.
The White House said Brennan called Yemen's president and made clear that the U.S. is ready to help the Yemeni government in the fight against al-Qaida. The U.S. already assists Yemen with airstrikes and other counterterrorism support.
Yemen's al-Qaida branch is the most active of the terrorist group's affiliates and has increasingly become the face of its recruitment efforts in the West. The country is home to radical U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. He has been linked in the Christmas attack and has inspired other terrorists with his violent message.
Also hiding in Yemen is Samir Khan, an American who declared himself a traitor and helps produce al-Qaida propaganda.
The Homeland Security Department said it was stepping up airline security, but White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Americans did not need to change their travel plans.


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When opening any file that's not on my hard drive (e.g. network drive) the file fails to open and the text area appears empty. This only happens when I open a file from Perforce (P4V - version control). See the log message below, straight from the console.
Unable to open /C/my-network-server/opt/www/alextiley/public_website/style/global.css
It looks to me as if Sublime thinks the file is on my C drive. It's not - the full path is /my-network-server/opt/www/alextiley/public_website/style/global.css. Opening files from perforce has been completely fine since I first started using Sublime Text 2 - the issue has arisen since the last update (Thursday 22nd Feb, 2012).


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CO2 can be stored in three main ways:
Deep ocean storage will increase ocean acidification, a problem that also stems from the excess of carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere and oceans.
Geological formations are currently considered the most promising sequestration sites.
Areas such as the North Sea and the US Gulf Coast are believed to contain a large amount of geological storage space.
Storage in deep geological formations is also known as 'geo-sequestration'.
In this technique carbon dioxide is converted into a high pressure liquid-like form known as 'supercritical CO2'. Supercritical CO2 behaves like a runny liquid, rather like WD40.
This supercritical CO2 is injected directly into sedimentary rocks. The rocks may be in old oil fields, gas fields, or in saline formations. Unminable coal seams and saline water-filled basalt volcanic rocks have also been suggested as storage sites.
Various physical, e.g. impermeable 'caprock', and geochemical trapping mechanisms prevent CO2 from escaping to the surface.
This process is already understood and has been carried out for many years in the process of 'Enhanced Oil Recovery' or EOR. In the United States approximately 30 to 50 million tonnes of CO2 are injected annually into declining oil fields. This option is attractive for geological storage because the geological character of hydrocarbon reservoirs is well known, and because costs of injection may be partly offset by the sale of additional oil that is recovered.
The main disadvantage of using old (or 'depleted') oil fields is their geographic distribution which may not be ideal in relation to point sources and their limited capacity in comparison with the size of big point sources. Also the subsequent burning of the additional oil so recovered through EOR will offset much or all of the reduction in CO2 emissions.
'Unminable' coal seams (or coal that is too deep or difficult to mine) can be used to store CO2 because it is adsorbed in the coal if the coal is permeable enough to allow CO2 to penetrate. In the process of absorption the coal releases previously absorbed methane, and the methane can be recovered. This methane can be used and the process of extracting useful methane from a coal seam when it is injected with CO2 is called ECBM (or enhanced coal bed methane).
The sale of the methane can be used to offset a portion of the cost of the CO2 storage. However as in EOR, burning the resultant methane would produce CO2 which would reduce some of the benefit of storing the original CO2.
Some deep rock formations contain highly concentrated brine which is present in the rock pores (which act together like a huge sponge), and have so far been considered of no benefit to humans. These are known as 'saline aquifers'.
In the past they have been rarely used for storage of chemical waste. However the value of saline aquifers is being re-examined.
Their main advantage for CCS is their large potential storage volume and their common occurrence. For example much of the North Sea and mainland Europe and the Texas Gulf Coast is underlain by large saline aquifers.
Their main disadvantage is that relatively little is known about them, compared to oil fields. Unlike storage in oil fields or coal beds no useful by-product will offset the cost of storage.
We need to understand more about saline aquifer storage, but current research shows that several trapping mechanisms immobilise the CO2 underground, reducing the risk of leakage. The IPCC says that for well-selected, designed and managed geological storage sites, CO2 could be trapped for millions of years, retaining over 99 per cent of the injected CO2 over 1000 years.
Another proposed form of carbon dioxide storage is in the deep oceans, but the environmental effects of this are generally believed to be bad, and the process is not well understood.
Large concentrations of CO2 kill ocean organisms as CO2 acts as an asphyxiant. Also, as CO2 reacts with the water to form carbonic acid, H2CO3, the acidity of ocean water would increase.
In mineral storage, captured CO2 is reacted with naturally occurring magnesium- (Mg) and calcium- (Ca) containing minerals. This is called mineral carbonation and occurs naturally as the weathering of rock over geologic time periods.
Such magnesium and calcium minerals are very abundant and are very stable. As a result, the re-release of CO2 into the atmosphere does not happen.
However, these carbonation reactions are very slow under normal temperatures and pressures and to speed it up would need energy. The reaction rate can be made faster, by reacting at higher temperatures and pressures, or by pre-treatment of the minerals.
The IPCC estimates that a power plant equipped with CCS using mineral storage will need 60–180 per cent more energy than a power plant without CCS.


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Which of these movie stars who beat the odds on the rise to fame is the public favorite?
The list can be found here: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls029163733/
Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/dXPfiOIw6k0/
For your consideration:
Julie Andrews
... The Andrews family was "very poor and we lived in a bad slum area of London," Andrews recalled, adding, "That was a very black period in my life." According to Andrews, her stepfather was violent and an alcoholic.[9] Ted Andrews twice, while drunk, tried to get into bed with his stepdaughter, resulting in Andrews fitting a lock on her door.[9] But, as the stage career of Ted and Barbara Andrews improved, they were able to afford to move to better surroundings, first to Beckenham and then, as the war ended, back to the Andrews' hometown of Hersham. The Andrews family took up residence at the Old Meuse, in West Grove, Hersham, a house (now demolished) where Andrews' maternal grandmother had served as a maid.[8] ...
Cary Grant
Tony Curtis
Karl Malden
Celine Dion
Charles Chaplin
Frank Sinatra
Tony Curtis
How many you want?
That was off the top of my head
Actress (32 credits) Terms of Endearment (announced)
Aurora Greenway
2018 The Handmaid's Tale (TV Series)
Newsreader - Holly (2018) ... Newsreader (voice, uncredited)
2018 A Wrinkle in Time
Mrs. Which
2017 The Star
Deborah (voice)
2016-2017 Greenleaf (TV Series)
Mavis McCready - The Pearl (2017) ... Mavis McCready
- Call Not Complete (2017) ... Mavis McCready (voice, uncredited)
- The Bear (2017) ... Mavis McCready (voice, uncredited)
- And the Sparks Fly Upward (2017) ... Mavis McCready
- A House Divided (2017) ... Mavis McCready
Show all 11 episodes
2017 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (TV Movie)
Deborah Lacks
2017 Crow: The Legend (Short)
The One Who Creates Everything By Thinking
2014 Selma
Annie Lee Cooper
2013 Making a Scene (Short)
2013/I Lee Daniels' The Butler
Gloria Gaines
2011 Jesus Henry Christ
2010 Si Agimat at si Enteng Kabisote
Baryo People (as Oprah)
2010 Sesame Street (TV Series)
O - The Camouflage Challenge (2010) ... O (voice)
2009 The Princess and the Frog
Eudora (voice)
2008 30 Rock (TV Series)
Oprah Winfrey - Believe in the Stars (2008) ... Oprah Winfrey
2007 Bee Movie
Judge Bumbleton (voice)
2006 Charlotte's Web
Gussy the Female Goose (voice)
2005 Desperate Housewives: Oprah Winfrey Is the New Neighbor (TV Short)
Karen Stouffer
1999 Home Improvement (TV Series)
Oprah - Home Alone (1999) ... Oprah (uncredited)
1999 Our Friend, Martin (Video)
Coretta Scott King (voice)
1998 Beloved
1997 Before Women Had Wings (TV Movie)
Zora Williams
1997 Ellen (TV Series)
Therapist - The Puppy Episode (1997) ... Therapist
1995 All-American Girl (TV Series)
Oprah Winfrey - A Night at the Oprah (1995) ... Oprah Winfrey
1993 There Are No Children Here (TV Movie)
LaJoe Rivers
1992 Lincoln (TV Movie)
Elizabeth Keckley (voice)
1992 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (TV Series)
Oprah Winfrey - A Night at the Oprah (1992) ... Oprah Winfrey
1990 Brewster Place (TV Series)
Mattie Michael - County General (1990) ... Mattie Michael
- Say It Loud (1990) ... Mattie Michael
- Family Album (1990) ... Mattie Michael
- The Poet (1990) ... Mattie Michael
- Bernice Sands Comes Home (1990) ... Mattie Michael
Show all 11 episodes
1990 Gabriel's Fire (TV Series)
Oprah Winfrey - Tis the Season (1990) ... Oprah Winfrey
1989 The Women of Brewster Place (TV Series)
Mattie Michael - Episode #1.2 (1989) ... Mattie Michael
- Episode #1.1 (1989) ... Mattie Michael
1986 Native Son
Mrs. Thomas
1985 The Color Purple
I guess 2 Oscar nominations go to TV Actors and Talk Show Hosts only.
Did I mention 2 Oscar Nominations.
Did I forget She has been awarded an Honorary Oscar
Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
The Color Purple (1985)
2014 Nominee
BAFTA Film Award Best Supporting Actress
The Butler (2013)
2013 Winner
AAFCA Award Best Supporting Actress
The Butler (2013)
1999 Nominee
Image Award Outstanding Lead Actress in a Motion Picture
Beloved (1998)
To give you a random example, 50 Cent. Is he an actor or a singer/rapper? (In the eyes of the general public)
To give you another example, Seth Rogen. Is he an actor or a movie producer? (In the eyes of the general public)
Even with Oprah's nominations and awards, I think she's not considered a movie star. But, if you believe I should add her to the list, I will. It looks obvious that you have more knowledge about the movies/tv series world than me, and if I'm wrong, I'm wrong, I'll learn (:
most people do think of her as a talk show host, but...she was great in 'the color purple', and, yes, you may consider her an actress, but...still not a movie star...
I'm older. She Was a star first, Talk show host later. This should never be a what have you done lately world. It should be how has your lifetime of accomplishments enriched us.
but i have always liked tony curtis...grew up watching alot of his movies...he gets my vote...
I added a small description to each one of them; I hope everything is ok now (:
Oprah - Winfrey has stated she was molested by her cousin, uncle, and a family friend, starting when she was nine years old, something she first announced to her viewers on a 1986 episode of her TV show regarding sexual abuse. When Winfrey discussed the alleged abuse with family members at age 24, they reportedly refused to believe her account. At 13, after suffering what she described as years of abuse, Winfrey ran away from home. When she was 14, she became pregnant but her son was born prematurely and he died shortly after birth. Winfrey later stated she felt betrayed by the family member who had sold the story of her son to the National Enquirer in 1990
Swank - When she was 15, her parents separated, and her mother, supportive of her daughter's desire to act, moved with her to Los Angeles, where they lived out of their car until Swank's mother saved enough money to rent an apartment.
Tyler Perry - Perry once said his father's answer to everything was to "beat it out of you". As a child, Perry once went so far as to attempt suicide in an effort to escape his father's beatings. In contrast to his father, his mother took him to church each week, where he sensed a certain refuge and contentment. At age 16, he had his first name legally changed from Emmitt to Tyler in an effort to distance himself from his father. Many years later, after seeing the film Precious, Perry was moved to reveal for the first time that he had been molested by a friend's mother at age 10; he was also molested by three men prior to this, and later learned his own father had molested his friend. A DNA test taken by Perry indicated that Emmitt Sr. was not Perry's biological father.
Ashley Judd - In her 2011 memoir "All That Is Bitter And Sweet," Ashley Judd revealed the shocking details of her youth as a victim of incest, sexual abuse, neglect and exposure to drug use during her mother's rise to fame as a country super star. Her many traumatic experiences even caused Judd to contemplate suicide on multiple occasions. She wrote, "I took to playing with mom's gun, trying to decide if it would be worth it to shoot myself. There were many days after school I would expertly check the chamber, load bullets, give it a spin and with a jerk of my wrist click the chamber into place, cock the trigger and then hold then gun to my right temple. To me, the way my family lived was already killing me. The shame and the keeping ourselves sick through secretiveness is one of the things we all need to have the courage to undo," she said of her decision to share her troubling history with the world.
Mo'Nique - During a 2008 Essence magazine interview, Mo'Nique revealed that she was sexually abused by her brother Gerald from ages 7–11; he went on to sexually abuse another girl and was sentenced to 12 years in prison. After her twin boys were born in 2005, Mo'Nique cut off all contact with Gerald. On April 19, 2010, he admitted on Oprah to sexually abusing her over several years. He also was abused by family members and struggled with substance abuse.
Kelsey Grammer - Grammer was two years old when his parents divorced. Grammer and his sister Karen were subsequently raised by their mother and grandparents in New Jersey. The family relocated to Florida, and shortly afterwards his grandfather died when Kelsey was twelve. Two years later, in 1968, Frank Allen Grammer, his father, was murdered. On July 1, 1975, Grammer's younger sister, 18-year-old Karen Grammer, was abducted, raped, and murdered by Freddie Glenn, Michael Corbett, and one other man. Grammer, then 20, identified her body. He and his sister had been close, and he was devastated by her death; his later bouts of alcoholism and drug addiction were fueled in part by guilt and depression. His two half-brothers, Stephen and Billy, perished in a scuba-diving accident in the Virgin Islands.
Dylan McDermott - Diane was fifteen and Richard was seventeen when McDermott was born; by 1967, the couple had divorced, and Diane and her two children were living with her mother. On February 9, 1967, Diane was killed. Her death was originally ruled an accident, but police later claimed that evidence they had found would be enough to file murder charges against John Sponza, who had been living with Diane at the time. Sponza told authorities that Diane accidentally shot herself after picking up a gun he had been cleaning. Sponza, who police say had ties to organized crime, was killed in 1972; his body was found in the trunk of a car in a Waltham, Massachusetts, grocery store parking lot.
Woody Harrelson - Harrelson was born in 1961 in Midland, Texas, to Diane (née Oswald) and Charles Voyde Harrelson. His father was a convicted contract killer, who received a life sentence for the 1979 killing of Federal Judge John H. Wood Jr. in San Antonio, Texas; Harrelson has stated that his father was rarely around growing up. He died in the United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility on March 15, 2007. The family was poor, reliant on his mother's secretary wage.
Richard Pryor - Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor grew up in the brothel run by his grandmother, Marie Carter, where his alcoholic mother, Gertrude L. was a prostitute. His father, LeRoy was a former boxer and hustler. After Gertrude abandoned him when he was ten, Pryor was raised primarily by Marie, a tall, violent woman who would beat him for any of his eccentricities. Pryor was one of four children raised in his grandmother's brothel. He was sexually abused at age seven, and expelled from school at the age of fourteen.
Liev Schreiber - When his mother was 12, her mother (Schreiber's grandmother) was lobotomized. When Schreiber was one year old, his family moved to Canada, winding up in the unincorporated rural community of Winlaw, Prior to this time, according to Schreiber's father, at the beginning of their marriage (in San Francisco), Schreiber's mother had a bad experience on LSD. Over the next four years, she was repeatedly admitted to hospitals and underwent therapy.After Schreiber's father threatened to admit her to a mental institution, she left with her son. With his father in pursuit, Schreiber and his mother were trailed by private detectives in various states; when he was three, his father kidnapped him from an upstate New York commune where Heather had gone to escape detection. By the time Schreiber was four, he was living with her on the fourth floor of a dilapidated walk-up at First Avenue and First Street in New York City (his half brothers from her first marriage were with their father in a duplex on Central Park West), and he was the object of a fierce custody battle, which bankrupted his maternal grandfather, Alex Milgram. Milgram, who was the most significant male in Schreiber's youth, played the cello and owned Renoir etchings, and made his living by delivering meat to restaurants. When Schreiber was five, his parents divorced; his mother won custody, and the two moved to a cold-water flat on the Lower East Side in Manhattan, where he was raised and first began his career in theater by enrolling in Joffrey Ballet School of NY. Growing up, they frequently had no electricity, hot water, or even beds. His mother was "a highly cultured eccentric" who supported them by splitting her time between driving a cab and creating papier-mâché puppets." On Schreiber's 16th birthday, his mother bought him a motorcycle "to promote fearlessness." The critic John Lahr wrote in a 1999 New Yorker profile that, "To a large extent, Schreiber's professional shape-shifting and his uncanny instinct for isolating the frightened, frail, goofy parts of his characters are a result of being forced to adapt to his mother's eccentricities. It's both his grief and his gift." He endured her mood swings and bohemian proclivities, which included making him take Hindu names, wear yoga shirts, and forcing Liev, briefly, to go to an ashram school in Connecticut when he was 12. Schreiber's mother forbade Schreiber from seeing color movies. As a result, his favorite actors were Charlie Chaplin and Basil Rathbone. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Schreiber, known then as Shiva Das, lived at the Satchidananda Ashram, Yogaville East, in Pomfret, Connecticut. (obvs this will have to be cut way down. I just thought I'd include it all so you guys read how crazy his childhood was!)
Regarding Liev Schreiber, just wow, but I had to cut so much, I can't tell if I did it right or wrong.
Again, thank you so much for your help :D
It became a cliché to hear people telling you how tough it's been for them, they got no support, no money, they were poor, abused, they started from scratch, no one trusted them etc. Actually, and I am not a cynical man, I believe these are blessings in disguise, the less you have when you start, the hungrier, the more eager to conquer and triumph you are. I'm not saying it's a universal truth but only saying that it is easier to get from 0 to 1000 than to get from 500 to 1000.
Many kids grow up in a good family environment, surrounded with love and support, and are pampered all their lives, hearing how exceptional they are, destined to accomplish great things and since they believe and love their parents, they think it's gonna happen until they realize that the "great bookmaker of life" can bet against them as well.
Growing poor doesn't prevent you from becoming a heavyweight champion (on the contrary) or being beautiful, or being a nerd and studying hard and being a jurist or physicist (remember Will Hunting) so I can admire someone who beat the odds by defeating handicap or a disease or a really big trauma, but poverty has been associated to so many celebrities' real-life narratives that it became a cliché.
But if I had to suggest one celebrity, it would be Sylvester Stallone. I would have put him on the top of the list actually, it's one thing to become a star but being a two-bit actor, connected to a few thugs role and a soft-porn movie and then writing a script on your own, getting the role and making it the highest-grossing film of the year and the Best Picture winner, that's what I call beating the odds.
If being poor is not considered an obstacle, very few things can be considered as such. I realize that the lack of money and other things can give you a lot more motivation to succeed and rise above expectations, but that's hardly the case. We hear a lot about celebrities that had a troubled past, but what about all the others that also had a troubled past and failed and no one knows about them?
Besides, even with all the motivation "caused because of being poor" isn't enough, there's a lot of other things to consider. For example, the number of working hours just to be able to eat and pay the rent, making someone incapable of pursuing what they really want.
It may be a cliche, I don't deny that, but just because it's a cliche, doesn't mean is not something real, or to put in better words, one of the big obstacles that someone has to endure.
I also agree with the Sylvester Stallone argument. Even though he didn't come from a poor family, he did struggle a lot in his early career to achieve what he achieved. I will add him to the list.
It's like the stories of the two twin brothers one became alcoholic because he grew up with an alcoholic father, the other never drunk a drop... because he grew up with an alcoholic father.
Your abilities, your habits, your erudition (a priori), your experience (a posteriori), your personality, your reputation, your affiliations, your environment and your luck determine whether your fame or your fortune goes up or down. The two things hardest for most people to alter or substitute are personality and luck. Meanwhile, any of the things affect chance just as chance can affect any of the things. Even after millennia of study, there is still no formula for this stuff, unless it is a statistical one, being as it is that chance is a omnipresent element.
I'll go with Charlize.
If this guy don't get the most votes if this gets turned into a poll!
Check out HIS BIO!!!!
Halle Berry - Her physically abusive ???? abandoned
Joaquin Phoenix - His four siblings (including River Phoenix) also performed on the streets with him; he was born into the Children of God cult, known for sanctioning sexual abuse of children; his older brother River suffered a drug overdose and died on the sidewalk outside the Viper Room. The call Phoenix made to 911 seeking help for his brother was repeatedly played on radio and television.
Richard Pryor - Pryor was raised primarily by his grandmother, a violent woman who
Danny Trejo - I would add that he was in and out of prison for 11 years, starting when he was 14 and spent many years in San Quentin.
I updated the title of this thread to match the update to the title of your list.
May I suggest one small edit to the intro.? ('A semi-colon, instead of a comma, after "doorstep.")
Not all movie stars were born or raised with stardom and privileges at their doorstep; some of them had to struggle to achieve the "American Dream."
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After ETSing from the Army in 1983,
he returned to South Central with the intention of becoming a hip-hop musician.
More than music, his life got caught up in street life as a jewel thief and as a pimp.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999- )
Ice-T ... Odafin Tutuola (419 episodes, 2000-2018) - detective
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Fred Dalton Thompson
Worked as a shoe salesman, truck driver, and even a factory worker
Was a lawyer/attorney before becoming an actor.
For 17 years (1975 to 1992) Thompson worked as a lobbyist in Washington, D.C.
representing such clients as Westinghouse, General Electric
When he joined the cast of Law & Order (1990) in the fall of 2002,
Thompson became the first serving U.S. Senator
to take a regular TV acting job. His term did not end until January 2003.
Law & Order (1990-2010)
Fred Dalton Thompson ... Arthur Branch (116 episodes, 2002-2007) - District Attorney
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Dennis Farina (1944–2013)
Actor Dennis Farina is unique among thespians
in that he was one of the few to achieve success as a "late-bloomer."
He did not start acting until he was 37 years old,
after stints in the military and 18 years on the Chicago Police Department
Law & Order (1990-2010)
Dennis Farina ... Joe Fontana (46 episodes, 2004-2006) - detective
This should go on to Danny Trejo's Mini description.
This is how he went from rags to riches.
A screenwriter who did time with Trejo in San Quentin, by chance saw Danny on a movie set. He had remembered his boxing skills. The screenwriter went to the trainer and told him of his prowess. They offered Danny $320 per day to train the actors for a boxing scene. Director Andrey Konchalovskiy, who saw Trejo training Eric Roberts, immediately offered him a featured role as Roberts' opponent in the film. The rest is history
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Bruno Waterfield
London Telegraph
October 10, 2011
The EU toy safety directive, agreed and implemented by Government, states that balloons must not be blown up by unsupervised children under the age of eight, in case they accidentally swallow them and choke.
Despite having been popular favourites for generations of children, party games including whistles and magnetic fishing games are to be banned because their small parts or chemicals used in making them are decreed to be too risky.
Apparently harmless toys that children have enjoyed for decades are now regarded by EU regulators as posing an unacceptable safety risk.
Whistle blowers, that scroll out into a a long coloured paper tongue when sounded – a party favourite at family Christmas meals – are now classed as unsafe for all children under 14.
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"Tougher-than-expected sales environment . . . heightened promotional environment . . . Heightened promotional environment of the holiday season . . . highly promotional holiday season . . . highly promotional holiday season . . . less certain consumer environment . . . an environment that looks to be more promotional."
Believe it or not, these were all heard on one conference call last night: that of Ulta Salon (ULTA), following a report that showed a quarter going steadily downhill as the months dragged on.
If you don't know Ulta, then you don't know the high-growth retail world. It's a world where some companies believe that there is endless demand for more stores, and that the idea, when executed properly, never runs out.
In Ulta's case the numbers have been fabulous but the situation has been suspect -- as anyone paying attention to Herb Greenberg here would know. Congratz to Herb for telling you to be careful before the quarter's announcement. That warning paid for a hundred subscriptions to Real Money if you were in it and sold or shorted the thing.
I have no question that Herb is right about how the new CEO is unsure that the company is executing well.
But I also have no doubt that this company is a metaphor for why the Federal Reserve's job is so difficult. Why should a store that sells beauty products be so badly hit if the economy is so strong?
The answer is, as with Conn's (CONN) yesterday, some parts of this nation are strong and others are weak. Plus, retail has become a changed landscape -- one in which companies have become increasingly desperate for business.
Be mindful of Ulta, and not just because of the management problems red-flagged so well by Herb.
Be mindful, because retail has become too hard to invest in. It's just too difficult to figure who is in trouble and who isn't, which means a lower multiple on lowered earnings going forward.


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